Two shot an hour apart

Saginaw Police are investigating two early Saturday shootings that occurred about an hour apart.

The first one, about 1:30 a.m., was at 1923 Perkins. The second was sometime before 2:30 a.m. when the victim arrived by a private vehicle at Covenant Medical Center Cooper.

The Saginaw News could not reach police investigators for comment, but the victim of the earlier shooting was Sandy T. Sammons, 21, who lived at the Perkins home with his grandmother, Minnie L. Gilbert, 70.

Gilbert said one bullet struck Sammons in the lower back, and doctors told her the bullet is lodged between his spine and a hip bone.

"I was asleep when I heard two gunshots, they sounded like they were from a small gun, and then Sandy came stumbling into the house, saying 'Granny, Granny, I've been shot'," Gilbert said.

She said her grandson often has late-night visits with his friends "around the corner," but does not know if that was where he was.

"He said he was just about home when a car drove by slow, turned around and them came back," Gilbert said.

"As he got in front of the house he met a man on the sidewalk who said, 'What's up, man,' and Sandy said, 'What's up,' and then the man pulled a gun and started shooting at him."

Sammons told Gilbert that he did not know the shooter and was not sure if the slow-moving car that turned around was related to the incident.

"(Sammons) is so thin, he's only 130 pounds, if the bullet kept going through him it could have been worse," Gilbert said. Sammons is recuperating at St. Mary's of Michigan hospital in Saginaw.